Focusing on the historic controversies surrounding freight rates, Close Ties explores the ways in which Canadians tried to regulate the nation's first big business, the railways. Ken Cruikshank challenges earlier interpretations, concluding that the history of railway regulation in Canada is not a story of powerful business corporations using governments to subvert the people's interests, nor a tale of righteous people overcoming robber barons. Instead, he presents a more complex and engaging account of how governments tried to accommodate the equally selfish demands of divergent and conflicting interests in a competitive economy.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Bibliography: p. [265]-279
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 385/.0971
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
- General Note
- Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 0773508546 9780773563049
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- HE2807
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- C783 1991eb
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- 1 electronic text (xiv, 287 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00200973 (OCoLC)243570129 (CaOOCEL)400463
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Figures and Maps 10
- Tables 12
- Acknowledgments 14
- 1 Introduction 20
- 2 The Politics of Freight Rates 25
- 3 Public Money, Private Rights 46
- 4 Public Authority, Private Rights 63
- 5 Railways, Politics, and Administration 82
- 6 "A Board of Arbitrators" 98
- 7 "A Question of Figures" 120
- 8 Casualties of War 144
- 9 "An Equilator [?] Rather Than a Mathematical Equality" 173
- 10 Regions of Regulation 196
- 11 Conclusion: The Limits of Regulation 213
- APPENDICES 228
- A: Chronology of Railway Freight Rate Regulation 228
- B: Statistics on Railway Freight Operations 234
- Notes 242
- Bibliography 282
- Index 298
- A 298
- B 298
- C 298
- D 300
- E 300
- F 300
- G 300
- H 300
- I 301
- K 301
- L 301
- M 301
- N 302
- O 302
- P 302
- Q 302
- R 302
- S 303
- T 303
- U 304
- V 304
- W 304
